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IP reforms, despite ‘growing pains,’ show promise, Middle East practitioners say

By Melissa Ritti ( May 19, 2025, 15:01 GMT | Insight) -- In 2024, the Middle East made meaningful progress in a collective effort to establish the region as a reliable hub for innovation and investment. Those strides haven’t gone unnoticed in the US — Saudi Arabia was recently lauded by both the US Chamber of Commerce and US Trade Representative in their annual global assessments of IP protections, and a big tech-heavy $600 billion strategic economic partnership with the US is in the works. But there is still room to improve, practitioners in the region conceded Sunday, and one major hurdle might require a concession from the World Intellectual Property Office.Between hosting the final negotiations of the Riyadh Treaty on Designs and its addition as only the second search and examination authority for patent applications in Arabic, no one could blame the Saudi Authority for Intellectual Property, or SAIP, for wanting to take a victory lap....

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